"Cuo" means a group houses or a manor in south China.
The Honglin Cuo took the lumber merchant Huang Zuobin and his elder son
Honglin 28 years to build up the house with 17832.28sq.m. in Minqing Town
since 1795. There are 35 living rooms, 25 small gardens, 30 dooryards, 36
high walls for fire protection, 4 wells, 13 gates and 666 rooms.
The houses were designed strictly with exact correspondence of form and
constituent configuration on opposite sides of a dividing line. Everything
indicates that it was designed in one time. In addition, not only the houses
but also the carvings were protected perfectly. |
